The Thin Black Line: True Stories by Black Law Enforcement Officers Policing America’s Meanest Streets
List Price: $25.95
Forge (Jan 06, 2009)
Fiction, Hardcover, 320 pages
ISBN: 9780312868208Publisher: Macmillan Publishers
Description of The Thin Black Line: True Stories by Black Law Enforcement Officers Policing America’s Meanest Streets
Meet the black men and women policing our meanest streets . . . LaVerne Dunlap - She infiltrates drug gangs and testifies against them in court … only to have the drug lords come gunning for her. Dep. County Sheriff Winroe Reed - He goes into America’s "Homicide Capital" alone to apprehend a 6’9" homicidal crack dealer … a man so dangerous no other cops would accompany him. Robbie Robinson - A movie actor/martial arts star/probation officer, he takes down LA’s toughest gangs. These are just a few of the courageous black heroes in Hugh Holton’s The Thin Black Line.